- (a.) Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
- (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Follow.
- (n.) Vocation; business; profession.
- (n.) One's followers, adherents or dependents, collectively.
- (a.) (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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